Regulations Governing the Forcible Deportation of the People of the Mainland Area and the Residents of Hong Kong and Macau Article 4

The National Immigration Agency (hereinafter referred to as the NIA) or other agencies, if capturing or uncovering the people of the Mainland Area or the residents of Hong Kong or Macau, who may be deported from or ordered to leave the Taiwan Area within ten days for violating the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 18 of the Cross-Strait Act or paragraph 1 of Article 14 of the Hong Kong and Macau Act, shall verify their identities and take their statements on conducting the investigation. In case criminal offences are involved, they shall be first referred to judicial departments for investigation. Those, who have not been taken into custody, arrested with a warrant, detained or restricted from exiting the State, or found to be involved in any criminal cases, shall be referred along with the information related to the involved cases to the NIA to be dealt with in accordance with the law by other agencies.The agencies, that are referring the people of the Mainland Area or the residents of Hong Kong or Macau to the NIA to be dealt with, shall notify the NIA if the subjects referred have been involved in criminal cases that have entered judicial proceedings before their forcible removal.The NIA, after having learned that the people of the Mainland Area or the residents of Hong Kong or Macau, who are subject to forcible deportation measures, have entered judicial proceedings, shall notify judicial agencies ten days prior to the forcible removal.When the people of the Mainland Area or the residents of Hong Kong or Macau, whose detention has been continued or extended by the court, have been forcibly removed, the NIA shall forthright inform the court of first instance.